"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth's vicinity ... Most spectacularly, in 2022, its Double Asteroid ...

Meteor strikes, waterfalls, and standalone mountains make for some stunning geological finds across the continent ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some point in the near future, this risk may be out of date. The rock is 130 ...

Of these, some particularly worrying rocks are known as "potentially hazardous asteroids". These are lumps of space rock bigger than 140 metres which fly within 0.05 astronomical units (AU) ...

FOR a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90m in diameter, it was ...